When is quarantine a useful control strategy for emerging infectious diseases?

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 163, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 479-485

  Day, Troy ^a   Park, Andrew ^a,b,d   Madras, Neal ^b   Gumel, Abba ^c   Wu, Jianhong ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Communicable diseases; Disease outbreaks; Emerging; Epidemiologic methods; Patient isolation; Quarantine; SARS virus

Indexed keywords

INFECTIOUS DISEASE;

ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; HIGH RISK PATIENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; CANADA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

SARS CORONAVIRUS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; ONTARIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUARANTINE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

EID: 33645060223     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwj056     Document Type: Article

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